The spring of 2018 brought the launch of STEAMhouse, a unique new space for innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration. STEAMhouse seeks to unite talented researchers, start-ups, SMEs and entrepreneurs from different backgrounds from within Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths – the STEAM disciplines – to bring amazing new ideas to life. We see huge benefit connecting […]
“There is no way I could take an hour out of my busy schedule to do something nice, for a free coffee, to have a space to chat with people from different departments at different points in their studies. I have absolutely no time to maybe learn something or maybe share my knowledge and no […]
Following the success of last year's event, we are delighted to invite you to … Careers & Cocktails (the festive edition)! Want to shake-up your career outlook or stir your imagination to think beyond the PhD? Join us for an evening of discussion, networking and short talks … over our aptly-named cocktails!* . Recognising the growing challenges of postdoc […]
The Brilliant Club offers a unique paid opportunity for current and completed PhD researchers. Tutors deliver programmes of university-style teaching based on their research to small groups of high-performing pupils in schools that serve disadvantaged communities based on their research to help them secure places at top universities. Want to find out more or are […]
We've adapted our popular one-day Writing Intensive with Dr Helen Kara into three online shorter sessions! Each session will include group half-hour writing sessions, with breaks in between, plus opportunities to discuss academic writing with Helen and your fellow students. This intensive is for writing first draft material; you’ll need to arrive ready to work […]
This Shut Up & Write aims to foster a supportive, focussed, and informal space for you to engage in a piece of writing for your PhD. You could also use the space for a focussed period of editing, reading or something similar away from any distractions. These productive periods will be interspersed with short breaks to […]
Run in conjunction with IT specialists, this practical workshop focuses on using Word for thesis creation You will be introduced to some advanced Word tools such as automatic table of contents and figures generation, pagination, inserting images, figures and captions, footnotes, bookmarks and hyperlinks and more to create a professional finish to your thesis.In doing so, you will […]
Thinking, researching, and being online We are pleased to invite you to the first in a series of workshops on ‘thinking, researching, and being online.’ The past year has brought about changes we could hardly have predicted. With archives closed and research participants accessible only via video calls, much of the research in the humanities […]
Led by Dr Helen Kara, this practical workshop will enable you to explore different aspects of the writing process, writing strategies and will be a chance for you to do some PhD writing. It is tailored specifically for Arts, Design & Media PhD researchers in the early to mid-stages of their research. Here’s what some our researcher’s […]
Whether you are on the verge of your viva or want to know more about what it entails, this workshop is for you! This Master Your Viva workshop aims to equip you with useful strategies to help you prepare for your viva, get through the big day itself and provide relevant information to demystify and […]